Bible Verses About Holiness

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

abstain from every form of evil.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;

not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

looking carefully lestthere beany man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;